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Welcome to the Raxan User Guide for Web Application Developers. The purpose of this user guide is to help developers understand how to build and develop applications using the Raxan Framework.</p>

<h3>Why Raxan for PHP?</h3>

<p>Over the years programmers having relied on open source technology to help them build and deliver quality solutions for their customers. Today, developers have the choice to choose a technology that best suit their needs. This is all made possible because others have so generously contributed to the open source community.</p>

<p>Raxan for PHP provides developers with yet another choice. It provides a set of integrated technology that's open source and readily available for both personal and commercial use.</p>

<p>Raxan for PHP is not an exclusive framework. It is designed in such a way that it can either be used independent of or integrated with existing frameworks so that you can make the best use of your existing technology and investments. With Raxan, we are simply adding another player to the framework space which will lead to more choice and flexibility for developers.</p>

<p>Raxan makes it easier for developers to understand and follow their web page or application development.  We believe it can significantly shorten your development time and we invite you to find out for yourself.</p>

<h3>What is Raxan for PHP?</h3>

<p>Raxan for PHP is a Web 2.0 framework that is designed to accelerate PHP Web development by helping developers to build and deploy Rich Web Applications.</p>

<p>The technology used behind Raxan is licensed under the open sourced MIT and GPL licenses and is based on today's web standards. This means that you have the option to modify or change the behavior of Raxan to suit your own needs.</p>

<p>By using a set of design patterns we were able to build a framework that's modular, extensible and easy to use.  This modular structure provides developers with a consistent interface for building and distributing reusable components.</p>

<p>With Raxan developers can:</p>

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<li>Build Cross browser HTML/Ajax application</li>
<li>Sanitize User Inputs</li>
<li>Support Multiple User Interface Languages</li>
<li>Build reusable and embeddable components or applications</li>
<li>Traverse or Manipulate HTML DOM elements for the server</li>
<li>Quickly layout HTML pages with a built-in CSS framework</li>
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<h3>Who Should Use It?</h3>

<p>Raxan is designed to meet the needs of both the HTML/JavaScript and PHP developer. The underlining technology makes it easy for the HTML developer to build beauty web pages with elegant layouts, while providing the PHP developer with a set of highly advanced and interactive APIs.</p>

<p>The framework is ideal for beginners, intermediate and advance web developers alike.</p>

<h3>Where Can I Learn More?</h3>

<p>To learn more about Raxan for PHP visit the online User Guide. For user support we invite you to join the Raxan Community to post your questions, comments or send us your feedback.</p>

<h3>How Can I Contribute?</h3>

<p>Your feedbacks, optimizations and contributions to the framework are very important to us and you're more than welcome to do so.</p>

<p>We also recommend that you check out the source code from our <a href="http://raxan.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/raxan">Google Code Repository</a> and have a look at the source.</p>

<p>If you have any other questions, suggestions or contributions, please feel free to <a href="../cnontact.html">Contact us via Email</a></p>

<h3>What's Next?</h3>

<p>To learn more and the Raxan Framework, please visit the <a href="table-of-contents.html">Table of Contents</a> and read the all documentation located under the sections label 'Introduction' and 'General Topics'.</p>

<h3>Get Involved with the Documentation</h3>

<p>We all know that documentation requires time and commitment. While we are committed to improving the quality of documentation, we are also open to community feedback and assistance where necessary. So feel free to volunteer in any way to improve the quality of the documentation, so that others like you can start learning about the framework.<br />
<a href="/forum">Join the Community</a> - The forum works with Google Friend Connect - Log into our forum with your existing Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account. No need to create a new account.</p>

<h3>Copyright Information</h3>

<p>The Raxan Framework is free software and is available for use in both personal and/or commercial projects, under both the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation and the MIT License as published by the Open Source Initiative. The bundled jQuery libraries are also free software and are distributed under their respective licenses (GPL and MIT). Please visit the jQuery website for information regarding distribution and licenses.</p>

<p>The Raxan Framework is written by Raymond Irving and maintained here at <a href="http://raxanpdi.com">http://raxanpdi.com</a>.&nbsp;
For additional credits/contributions/inspirations please visit the <a href="credits.html">Credits/Acknowledgements</a> web page.</p>

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